Message sent to Pontiff
Vatican City (UP) –
Authoritative Vatican City quarters indicated today that Cardinal Rodrique Villeneuve of Canada, who arrived in Rome by airplane, has an important message for Pope Pius XII containing the points of view of the U.S. and British governments regarding a number of problems which the Pope and Prime Minister Winston Churchill discussed during the latter’s recent trip to Rome.
These Vatican City quarters said it was understood that during the Québec conversations, Mr. Churchill called to Mr. Roosevelt’s attention the Pope’s ideas on a number of important international questions principally concerning Italy and Poland.
On Sept. 12, Myron C. Taylor, Mr. Roosevelt’s special envoy to the Vatican City, and d’Arcy Osborne, British Minister to the Holy See, during a visit to the Papal Secretariat were understood to have given assurances that the Pope’s suggestions would be given every consideration possible by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt.